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dedicated to promoting cultural competency through many generations, according to Serna. Students from different experience levels, backgrounds, majors, and experiences come together to practice nine hours per week to create an amazing show for Davis, Sacramento, and nearby communities, including families and friends from many different places in California.
The Davis City Council will receive an update Tuesday on its Housing Element, two weeks after the state notified the city that the document still lacks the information needed to be certified. Absent state certification, the city could lose out on funding streams and possibly lose some authority over development projects via the Builder’s Remedy, which strips cities and counties of their right to deny housing projects with at least 20 percent affordable units if their Housing Elements not certified. There is a caveat to the Builder’s Remedy, however, as it would not apply to projects proposed for land zoned agricultural and surrounded on at least two sides by land being used for agriculture or resource preservation, a caveat that applies to most of the peripheral developments proposed thus far for Davis. However, Dave Taormino, the developer of Palomino Place, a proposal for 170 residential units east of Wildhorse, announced Friday he is amending his application pursuant to that remedy.
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UCD’s Danzantes del Alma present the costumes and dances from the Mexican state of Nayarit. Danzantes del Alma/ Courtesy photo
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UC Davis Folklorico group puts on annual show at Mondavi By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer The classic mariachi music of Jalisco, the fast and intricate steps of Michoacan and traditional dances with machetes of Nayarit will hit the Mondavi Center on Saturday, April 22, as UC Davis’ Danzantes del Alma
will present their 44th annual show, “Historias de Nuestra Tierra” (Stories of our Land). To include dances from Jalisco, Michoacan, Nayarit and Guerrero, as well as dance pieces dedicated to the Mexican Revolution, Danzantes will represent each uniquely beautiful region with music, wardrobe,
and style, said Alexandra Serna, a fourth-year UC Davis Neurobiology student, and publicity chair for Danzantes del Alma. Costumes are traditional and bought from stores in Mexico. Most of the costumes have been in their wardrobe room for generations, and new ones have been purchased as needed, Serna explained. Formed in 1977 as a student initiative to fight against discrimination, UCD’s Danzantes is now a retention program
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The UCD Aggies are a proud herd of alumni who gallop onto their respective career and life paths after graduation. Luckily, the Enterprise was able to wrangle alumnus Taylor Brickey and chat with him about life after UCD. Hailing from just down the road in the charming little town of Winters, Brickey grew up frequently visiting Davis. In Sept 2009, however, Brickey officially made it his home
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UC Davis grad Taylor Brickey, originally from Winters, credits a rigorous Aggie education with his success afterward. away from home as he became a freshman at UCD. “It was the best college,
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for what I was looking for that, I got accepted to,” he
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A Sacramento attorney who targeted thousands of businesses for disability discrimination — including several in Davis — received his sentence last week for filing false tax returns. Scott Norris Johnson, 61, underreported his income from lawsuits he filed alleging noncompliance with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, according to Philip A. Talbert, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California. Johnson, a quadriplegic
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who uses a motorized wheelchair, named himself as the plaintiff in the federal suits. The omissions, which occurred in 2012, 2013 and 2014, caused more than $250,000 in losses to the Internal Revenue Service, Talbert said in a California Department of Justice news release. Johnson pleaded guilty to the allegations last fall and was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Sacramento to 18 months of home detention as part of a 30-month probation term. He also
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